April was quite the month. Earlier I wrote about how short 6 weeks at school would be, but boy did April throw that one off! While January, February, and March flew by, April crawled.
That’s the funny thing about time. The most continuous and linear concept is variable and fickle. Even busy-ness sometimes fails to speed [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘school’
31 March 2009
6 Weeks
I can’t decide what I think about 6 weeks – whether it’s short or long. In the context of study abroad or any sort of vacation, 6 weeks can take forever. Each of the first 6 weeks in Tanzania felt like a lifetime. But here, there are 6 weeks left of the school year and [...]
12 March 2009
A Mirror of Nature at the MIA
Yikes! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted!
There are posts in the works but this whole adjusting-back-to-normal-school thing is a tougher exercise in time management than I thought! Boy do I wish I were back at camp outside Tarangire right now. I think I’d savor getting dressed in a 104 degree F tent…
BUT I’m [...]
16 December 2008
Advent Conspiracy
I am home! And it is snowing outside. It’s beautiful. Welcome to the Christmas season!
I’m pretty overwhelmed right now, as I try to get back into life here. I visited St. Olaf on Sunday night and nearly drowned in the amount of information I had to process immediately. I was fully aware that time passes [...]
12 November 2008
sometimes you don’t want to just sit and watch
I have just finished catching up on Chelsea’s India adventures and I’ve got to say, I’ve been shamed. Somehow, from the middle of nowhere India, she has managed to keep you all updated about the wonderful things she has done these past few months – and in glowing detail nonetheless! Her stories of [...]
28 May 2008
“now”
May 25, 2008
I realize I haven’t written since St. Patrick’s Day…but I don’t really feel bad about it. I have this complex relationship with blogging. Going into this blog, I told myself I wouldn’t reveal anything about myself on it – because that’s dangerous. I mean, anyone can and will read my blog, right? Well [...]
25 February 2008
wrap-up (I miss Itasca)
I am waaay overdue on this but I thought I’d just wrap the trip up for you:
First things first. Itasca was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Not only did I learn a ton without realizing it (my professor has a way of simply exuding information when you’re in his presence [...]
27 January 2008
catch-up
sorry it’s been so long. this week was crazy – freezing cold temperatures over the weekend and into the beginning of the week; 2 days of intense auguring to get all 19 lakes re-tested after the cold snap (there was about a 5 cm increase in ice thickness during the weekend’s -40 degree Fahrenheit weekend), [...]
9 January 2008
beavers and ice
Yesterday we continued our search for beaver lodges and had quite the exciting day! The 11 of us students split into 4 groups, each covering a square mile of the park. Out of the 11 of us, 6 put a foot or a leg through the ice. One guy went through twice: [...]
7 January 2008
warm winter
today got up to 41 degrees fahrenheit. a great day for being out so here are some photos i got. we just hiked a little way up a ski trail near our house. the lake in the photos is lake itasca.
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